Re: caps in elf headers: use the sticky bit!

tytso@mit.edu
Mon, 19 Apr 1999 01:32:36 -0400


From: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 20:15:22 -0400 (EDT)

Clearly you have missed a large chunk of the discussion.

And again, clearly you have missed the discussion where it has been
pointed out repeatedly that this is insufficient; a program may need to
be setuid "daemon" (or some other non-root UID), so that it has the
ability to access files owned by a particular uid, as well as have some
capabilities set.

Therefore, using setuid root is insuficient. Q.E.D.

- Ted

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